Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm plans for a new school building (details supplied) in Dublin 24; if he will detail schedules being followed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7787/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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As the Deputy is aware, I announced in June 2011 that forty new schools comprising of twenty new primary schools and twenty new post-primary schools, were to be established up to 2017 across a number of locations. The Department subsequently invited patron bodies to make applications for patronage of the new primary schools to be established in 2012 and 2013. Following the assessment process of the applications concerned, approval was conveyed in March 2012 last for the establishment in September 2013 next of two primary schools in the area referred to by the Deputy. My Department is working closely with the Local Authority to acquire a suitable site for the construction of permanent accommodation for both schools. A major building project for the provision of this accommodation was included in the five year construction programme announced in March 2012, and is scheduled to proceed to construction in 2014/2015. The current status of all projects on the school building programme may be viewed on my Department's website at www.education.ie and this is updated regularly throughout the year.